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Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. · Beat 180 · permalink

Private office

27:58–28:08 Released 1922

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:5927:59Frame at 28:0128:01Frame at 28:0328:03Frame at 28:0628:06

Play from 27:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 396–399. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, light trousers, knee-high boots, curly hair visible
Seen happening
  • man stands with hand near mouth, looking at shadow on wall [frame:1]
  • man bends forward, reacting to shadow [frame:2]
  • man turns away from shadow, hand on hip [frame:3]
  • man stands upright, mouth open in alarm, looking at shadow [frame:4]
Seen
large shadow of man, ornate chair, table or desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, ominous; themes: fear, doppelgänger, internal dread; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static camera, theatrical staging, expressionist shadow play

A man in period costume stands in a dimly lit room, reacting to his own shadow cast on the wall. He appears startled and moves away from the shadow, which remains large and imposing.

The record

Published 1922, so any US term has expired; no US registration under this title appears in the catalog. The status is a calculation from the date, not a finding about a record. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Nosferatu_most_complete_version_93_mins. (1922) at 27:59 (passage 27:58–28:08)

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